“Follow the Money” reads the headline of today’s New York Times editorial, which–along with the news story that inspired it–rank among the most hypocritical journalism I have read in a while. The editorial laments that,
Nine years
The decision by Wikileaks to expose a massive collection of classified State Department cables, and the fact that Wikileaks seems today to be experiencing a DDOS attack, creates an occasion to think hypothetically about an array of legal issues that … Read more »
[FINAL UPDATE: Please disregard this original post, and instead look to my summary of the actual bill posted on 9/29/10]
[update: some have suggested to me that my impression of the bill will be different once I see the … Read more »
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
William P. Barr (former Attorney General), Jamie S. Gorelick (former Deputy AG), and Kenneth L. Wainstein (former Assistant AG for National Security) have this Times op-ed on the AP subpoena controversy. They write:
While neither we nor the critics know the circumstances behind the prosecutors’ decision to issue this subpoena, we do know from the government’s public disclosures that the prosecutors were right to investigate this leak
